

You have a point, but in reality this isn’t exactly what instances advertise, so especially users who aren’t already in the loop are unaware of what they are not seeing. Even more so because defederation-heavy instances also treat discussions on the matter as off-topic or worse, so those users are actively prevented from making an informed decision.












Closely related to their love for hierarchies as the “natural order”. Democracy is fine as long as it solidifies the rule of the politicians they stupidly identify with. As soon as progressives gain power and start actually representing disenfranchised people, this order is violated, and that feels to conservatives like society itself is crumbling and any means are justified to “fix” it. Up to collaborating with fascists that promise to make us go away.